1. Paula Long was CEO and co-founder of DataGravity and in 2001, she co-founded EqualLogic, which was later sold to Dell.
12 Facts About Paula Long
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Paula Long received her bachelor's degree in computer science from Westfield State University in Westfield, Massachusetts.
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Paula Long was a consulting software engineer in the UNIX operating system group at Digital Equipment Corporation before her move to the startup community.
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Paula Long worked at Bright Tiger Technologies in Acton, Massachusetts, where she was responsible for the ClusterCATS product line, a web management clustering product.
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In 1999, Bright Tiger was acquired by Allaire Corporation, and Long went on to work at Allaire in several engineering leadership positions.
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Paula Long was the director of software at Iron Stream, seed funded in 2000 and closed during the dot-com meltdown.
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In 2001, Paula Long co-founded storage provider EqualLogic in Nashua, New Hampshire alongside Peter Hayden and Paul Koning.
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Paula Long was responsible for development of the EqualLogic product lines.
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Paula Long remained at Dell as vice president of storage until 2010.
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Paula Long has served on several boards, including SugarSync and ClearSky Data.
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Paula Long hold patents in data storage, data analytics, data protection, data security and file systems.
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Paula Long won the New Hampshire High Tech Council's Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2008.